8th March 2004
Rosie - good work - you're doing it all right!
Hope your health probs sort themselves out.
Always remember that the drugs you are taking (both opiates and more subtley - the benzos) have medically recognised side effects. (Did you ever get round to reading The Ashton Manual? Worth - at your stage now - reading about withdrawal effects - dead easy to access and read online - strongly recommend - you will find it very informative and helpful I think. Just turn straight to the section labelled Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Symptoms, Acute and Protracted - chapter 111 pages 35 - 39 After that - there is similar info on withdrawal symptoms from anti-depressants. Just good informative background stuff. I would sent you a copy by post if I could! In fact - you can buy a printed copy online should you so wish)
Your sponsor - dont take all this too seriously - its not a decision for life - you can change sponsors at any time too. FWIW - I never actually "asked" anyone to be my sponsor - but effectively the person whom I regard as just the wisest person in the world is really my sponsor - nothing "official". Funny - as it turns out - my sponsor is a very elderly man - a fisherman of 78 yrs old - lives very modestly in a wee cottage on a shoreside miles away from where I live. I met him while on holiday............. but he is my rock. And it really does help to have someone "special" like a sponsor. Always remembering too that - just as you are helped by the sponsor - so is he/she helped by your input - its a two way thing. Wonderfully supportive for both of you. Wont be long until someone asks you to be their sponsor....... and so it continues.
Rosie - dont want to sound patronising - so wont say much more -but you have been so very courageous and really intelligent in your approach to all this. You've recognised and embraced your problem. Not stuck your head in the sand or put off to another day......You simply now cannot fail. OK - there are still rocks on the road.......(and I do know it is hard - but its doable) but once you have this amount of self awareness there is no turning back.........you have set out now on the journey of your life! Aren't you really deep down excited now about your position? No longer is the outlook bleak or hopeless - you have this very real prize sitting in the road ahead of you? Great stuff.
Just look how the bold Kinda now is skipping along that road called LIFE?
If I can help in anyway, Rosie - just give me a shout.
Y
(and all that is required is that you do it.....one day at a time! And that's the way all of us CAN do it)
Hope your health probs sort themselves out.
Always remember that the drugs you are taking (both opiates and more subtley - the benzos) have medically recognised side effects. (Did you ever get round to reading The Ashton Manual? Worth - at your stage now - reading about withdrawal effects - dead easy to access and read online - strongly recommend - you will find it very informative and helpful I think. Just turn straight to the section labelled Benzodiazepine Withdrawal Symptoms, Acute and Protracted - chapter 111 pages 35 - 39 After that - there is similar info on withdrawal symptoms from anti-depressants. Just good informative background stuff. I would sent you a copy by post if I could! In fact - you can buy a printed copy online should you so wish)
Your sponsor - dont take all this too seriously - its not a decision for life - you can change sponsors at any time too. FWIW - I never actually "asked" anyone to be my sponsor - but effectively the person whom I regard as just the wisest person in the world is really my sponsor - nothing "official". Funny - as it turns out - my sponsor is a very elderly man - a fisherman of 78 yrs old - lives very modestly in a wee cottage on a shoreside miles away from where I live. I met him while on holiday............. but he is my rock. And it really does help to have someone "special" like a sponsor. Always remembering too that - just as you are helped by the sponsor - so is he/she helped by your input - its a two way thing. Wonderfully supportive for both of you. Wont be long until someone asks you to be their sponsor....... and so it continues.
Rosie - dont want to sound patronising - so wont say much more -but you have been so very courageous and really intelligent in your approach to all this. You've recognised and embraced your problem. Not stuck your head in the sand or put off to another day......You simply now cannot fail. OK - there are still rocks on the road.......(and I do know it is hard - but its doable) but once you have this amount of self awareness there is no turning back.........you have set out now on the journey of your life! Aren't you really deep down excited now about your position? No longer is the outlook bleak or hopeless - you have this very real prize sitting in the road ahead of you? Great stuff.
Just look how the bold Kinda now is skipping along that road called LIFE?
If I can help in anyway, Rosie - just give me a shout.
Y
(and all that is required is that you do it.....one day at a time! And that's the way all of us CAN do it)